Dienekes

Dienekes (died 480 BC) was a Spartan soldier who fought alongside King Leonidas at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC.

Biography
Dienekes was born in Sparta, and he became a warrior at the time of the Greco-Persian Wars. He served under King Leonidas, and, in 480 BC, he approached Leonidas as he reminisced about how he would have liked to have gone fishing with his son; when asked if Dienekes ever went fishing, Dienekes told Leonidas that he had only known the life of a warrior. Dienekes then told Leonidas that the men were ready for battle, and Leonidas, Dienekes, and the rest of the 300 Spartans perished at the Battle of Thermopylae.